A number of people, including City Marshal Rodney Pfeifer, Mayor Patrick Johnson and Pope County Judge Jim Ed Gibson, stopped by to thank Glenda McMillian for her 28 years of service as Dover’s librarian.

McMillian began working for the Dover branch of the Pope County Library in 1985 when it was located in a different building. Like the rest of the community, she saw the need for a new library and was one of the people who helped build it.

McMillian said that the thing she finds most interesting about the building is that all of the bricks were purchased by school children.

“I’m going to miss everybody so much,” McMillian said. “This has been my life for 28 years.”

McMillian said that her favorite part of her job was the people that came into the library. Now that she is retiring, McMillian said that she plans to do, “anything I want.”